I'm cheap in game like IRL.

Getting me to buy something instead of finding it myself is already rare, but I definitely WILL find the cheapest price on said item.

Needs a fourth option: Rarely.

In general I've noticed out of the way traders are more expensive than major cities, but if I'm desperate for something, I'll go everywhere.

I start at my guilds plus rawlkha then the major cities and if I cant find what I am after I look at the main trade hubs in each zone.

If I am looking for something, I will hit any trader I can think of to find it. Especially if I think I can get it at a much lower price. I have a pretty good idea of what something should sell for, so if I find it at a fair price, I buy it. I won't go looking beyond that, for no other reason than I have lost a couple of items thinking I could beat the price, only to come back and it's gone.

As I am adventuring, I hit every trader kiosk I see and browse the stock. Sometimes its something I need, sometimes it's a bargain.

If am looking for mats, I admit I get lazy on the common ones and buy at what I know is a fair price. But some mats are rare.

There was no option for my answer

I sometimes visit out of the way traders. I don't visit every one in every zone.

Most of the time those traders don't have much in them though

I just hit TTC and see which vendor has the price im willing to buy with an reasonable amount of time posted, its very simple.
You didnt include the "smart" option and that is a shame.

I'm using TTC site so technicaly yes but without it i wouldnt use traders outside maybe Deshaan, Rawl'kha and Blekarth at all. I play to have fun and trading system in this game isn't fun. I tried to check every single merchant once. Lost 2 hours of my life and got nothing in return. Never gonna do this again.

I sometimes visit the lonely ones that are near Wayshrines and such... but I never go to Outlaw Refugees ones, for example. Nor I ever go to Hew's Bane or Gold Coast ones...

When I'm looking to buy something, I just trip to Elden Root, Belkarth, Rawl'ka, Mournhold, Wayrest, and if still haven't found what I want at a reasonable price, then I visit Daggerfall, Sentinel, Shornhelm, Hollow City, Marbruk, Orsinium, etc. etc.

I used to check guild traders in remote locations but they always had almost nothing for sale and it was waste of time. Ive never found anything I wanted at those traders. I dont know why they even bother having a trader with nothing for sale.

So now I just save time and go to the main city traders.

Other.
I check the traders in the outlaws refuge or out of the way locations if I am in the area. Otherwise I have a few cities I shop in when I'm looking for something I can't find in my guilds.

I used to but I can't be bothered to even go to a trader at all unless I'm really desperate. A search function would have me visiting guild traders much more often. Console pleb so no add-ons.

Sadly there is no option for efficient / intelligent shopping:
- I know that most "good" players sell their stuff in prominent places. So there is no point in looking for stuff like gold pvp jewelery or the complete silken ring motif book in a far away trader.
- For cheap and popular items, it's not worth to check many traders as I could use the time spend in loadscreens to get more money than I could possibly save.
- For sets that are not considered bis and low level items usually noone sells them in top locations, so I only search traders with medium to low popularity.

andreasranasen wrote: »

This is why we need a Universal Trader Search Tab when we are looking for an item. You would not be able to buy directly from the this Search Tab, but it would list all the items available on your platform and what trader i have to travel to, to buy it.

(On PC i believe they have an addon for this already.)

What addon is that? I thought you had to be in guilds to use trader addons.

If I'm really desperate to find something I might go to some of them, but for the most part its just a pain in the ass. This game needs a auction house so bad.

I check my own guilds, then local traders where I am, then go to main trading centers, then work outward. A "main trading center" is pretty much anything with 4 or more traders, and I start with the nearest. I rarely get to Rawl'kha. I visit the remote traders mostly when I am not looking for something. It is the remote traders that I am more likely to find things I am not specifically looking for right now, like cheap recipes that I don't know, inexpensive items with specific traits that I need, etc. This is also where I find the crazy low priced items that I can sell for more in my own guild.